Respect for India- And other developing militaries

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by *[FOX

* Bort]

The U.S. only has 12 true carriers, which will go down to just 11 if Bush gets his way and retires the Kennedy. Plus a certain amount of those are undergoing maintenance at any given time and therefore undeployable.

Yea but our dozen or so Harrier (and soon JSF) capable 'gator freighters are about equal or superior to a lot of nations aircraft carriers.


Anyways the F-16 really doesn’t impress me and if it’s the main jet we were using over there its not surprising we lost. I remember reading that an old RAF Lighting interceptor out maneuvered an F-16 once. We should have kept the F-14 and its Phoenix missiles; those things have a range two or three times greater as whatever the IAF has on its MiGs and Sus. You can just sit back and pick off whatever comes out to play and if they get too close just turn tail at mach 2 and let the F/A-18 clear your six.

Oh plus we all know wargames are rigged. In a real war between the US and India we would be shooting hundreds of cruise missiles at their military infrastructure and hitting their command centers with Stealth jets- they would simply be overwhelmed.